Pioneer Square in the News

This post originally appeared on The New Pioneer Square, a blog that shares pictures, news, and events from Seattle’s first neighborhood.

NEWS

Pioneer Square Hotel seeks OK for annex (DJC subscription only)
“A long-planned hotel project is back before the Pioneer Square Preservation Board after a two-year hiatus. The project involves adding a four-story annex to the Pioneer Square Hotel on Yesler Way. It would have 30 hotel rooms, 900 square feet of ground-floor retail and 39 parking spaces. The hotel is just north of the annex site.”

Pioneer Square stays bookish without Elliott Bay Book Co. (Seattle University Spectator)
“Even in the absence of Elliott Bay, Pioneer Square stands out as Seattle’s most prominent book district; it’s home to a dozen different independent booksellers, and most of them carry used titles that literary lovers can stockpile without breaking their bank.”

BLOGS

Can Seattle Walk the Talk? (VIA Architecture)
A review of Helle Soholt’s “Seattle’s Public Life — Making it the Most Walkable City in America.” To download the presentation or to watch video, click here.

CRIME

Feb 27th – after being thrown out of a nightclub, one ejected member slapped a female, who had also been thrown out of the club.

Feb 28th – after leaving a nightclub, a man initiated contact with a group of women he had seen in the club. After being told they weren’t interested, he backhanded one woman “for her perceived disrespect” and punched a second woman.